'BradCast' 6/10/2019 (Guest: Cyber risk security expert Chris Vickery of UpGuard)
b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 An exclusive, stunning interview with CHRIS VICKERY, the Director of Cyber Risk Research at cyber security firm UpGuard, who revealed late last week that he discovered crucial files of the North Carolina State Board of Elections left public and vulnerable online, unencrypted and available for anyone to download\\xa0 -- including administrative master passwords for voting systems. The longtime cyber security researcher says that the data was apparently exposed as early as February 2016, and he notified the state of his discovery before the 2018 midterm elections. Vickery's bombshell comes on the heels of reports that the Dept. of Homeland Security plans to conduct a forensic investigation of North Carolina's voter registration systems, which failed on Election Day 2016, and Special Counsel Robert Mueller's redacted report revealing that Russian intelligence operatives penetrated at least two Florida county voter registration systems. But Vickery notes the NC exposed password files were not for voter registration systems, but for the state's computer voting machines and tabulators, made by private vendor ESS. As we've reported on 'The BradCast' since 2016, nobody -- not FBI, not DHS, not the states, or Mueller's Special Counsel team -- ever carried out a forensic investigation of any computer voting, registration or tabulation system used in the 2016 presidential election. Also today:\\xa0 Climate changed-intensified flooding spreads from the Midwest to the Southeastern U.S., with a month's worth of rain coming in one day over the weekend. Donald Trump declares victory after backing off his threat to impose new taxes on Americans who purchase imported goods from Mexico. Callers weigh in on all of the above, including a listener who quips that NC "left the combination of the safe written on top of the door"..."